Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie is a popular

Popular music

Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...

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Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

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History

The music was written by Harry Von Tilzer

Harry Von Tilzer

Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...

, the lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling

Andrew B. Sterling

Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...

. The song was published in 1905

1905 in music

-Events:*January 26 - Arnold Schoenberg's symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande is premiered in Vienna.*January 29 - Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder is premiered in Vienna.*October 15 - Claude Debussy's La Mer is premiered in Paris....

. The song has been recorded many times and is now considered a pop standard. In a long-standing tradition, floor trader

Floor trader

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s at the New York Stock Exchange

New York Stock Exchange

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 sing this song on the last trading day of every year and on Christmas Eve. The song has been the stock exchange anthem at least back as far as 1934. It is also a popular song in Barbershop music

Barbershop music

Barbershop vocal harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era , is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture...

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It appeared as a Country music hit, as performed by the Golden Memory Boys in the summer of 1940.